GRE Word List
ROUSING
giving rise to excitement : stirring
The meaning of the word rousing is giving rise to excitement : stirring.
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| torrent | a violent or forceful flow of fluid |
| merger | the absorption of an estate, a contract, or an interest in another, of a minor offense in a greater, or of a cause of action into a judgment |
| conformist | one who conforms : a person who behaves in accordance with prevailing standards or customs and typically dislikes or avoids unconventional behavior |
| embark | to go on board a vehicle for transportation |
| skinflint | a person who would save, gain, or extort money by any means : miser |
| attrition | sorrow for one's sins that arises from a motive other than that of the love of God |
| pine | any of a genus (Pinus of the family Pinaceae, the pine family) of coniferous evergreen trees that have slender elongated needles and include some valuable timber trees and ornamentals |
| vagrant | one who has no established residence and wanders idly from place to place without lawful or visible means of support |
| whorl | a drum-shaped section on the lower part of a spindle in spinning or weaving machinery serving as a pulley for the tape drive that rotates the spindle |
| wrest | to pull, force, or move by violent wringing or twisting movements |